Monday, February 18, 2008

confessions...

Among other scrapbooking projects, I still haven't finished by "confessions" mini-album from kiwiscraps late last year. I'm going to make it my goal to try and finish one thing a week and eventually I will be caught up.

I cannot bake to save my life! We had our new oven installed on Friday night, so I thought I'd have a go at doing some baking on Saturday. First up I tried a butter cake. The cake didn't rise at all, so it was more of a big biscuit. After the timer went off I looked at the packet and realised the best before date was some time in 2005. This is how long ago I last baked a cake!! Needless to say - it went in the bin. The next thing we tried baking was a pork roast. It took forever to cook and we ended up having to cook something else for the kids because they were starving!! The pork itself was beautiful and the crackling was cooked to perfection, however the potates didn't brown - oh well. Next up were chocolate chip biscuits. I made up 2 trays of them and the bottom tray were burnt to a crisp, while the top tray were perfect and delicious - only 8 were successful - 2 each, however Eme decided they were so delicious, the little guts had 4 and Andrew missed out!

I need to clean out my pantry (see point 2 above)

I just love Stampin Up products! I went to Kim's SU workshop on Friday night and had a play with all their lovely stamps. I'm starting to think I love stamping as much as I love scrapbooking. I really want to learn more about stamping techniques, so that's been put on my list for the year.

This is my first full week back at work in a month and its starting to take its toll - and its only day one! I'm sure I will get used to it again, but I'd much rather be finishing early and picking up Sethy from school.